Tag Archives | child protection

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Children, Social work leaders

Government bids to clear up practitioner ‘confusion’ on information sharing

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Safeguarding overhaul needed to better protect disabled children in care, says abuse inquiry

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Children

Finley Boden: case review examining factors behind baby’s murder after return to parents

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Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Specialist child protection social workers to be piloted in DfE care review response

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Children, Social work leaders

Workloads and lack of supervision undermining child protection practice, find studies

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Logan Mwangi

Children, Social work leaders

Logan Mwangi review sparks government action on safeguarding but no children’s care inquiry

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Social worker making notes

Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

LADO role faces review after disabled children abuse inquiry identifies ‘major failings’

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Children, Social work leaders

‘Why child protection policies on bruising to babies need to change’

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immigrant child

Children, Social work leaders

Councils unable to safeguard children subject to immigration control, finds study

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Children, Social work leaders

Child protection enquiries reach record levels, reveal official figures

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Children, Social work leaders

DfE intervenes in council after finding lack of improvement to children’s services

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Children, Social work leaders

‘Simplistic and optimistic’ approach to domestic abuse evident in serious cases, warns national panel

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Children, Social work leaders

‘It is very serious’: commissioner warns ‘inadequate’ council it must improve ‘at pace’

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Children, Social work leaders

Pre-mobile infant bruising should not automatically prompt section 47s, say government advisers

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Children, Social work leaders

Children waiting up to six weeks to see social workers, as authority downgraded to ‘inadequate’

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Children, Social work leaders

Some NQSWs carrying overly complex cases, despite council’s effective performance, finds Ofsted

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